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Behavior analysis
Behavior analysis is an approach to psychology that concerns itself primarily with observing, analysing and attempting to understand and predict the way humans behave and interact.
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reinforcers
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Can also be defined independently of their behavioral consequences. The effectiveness of a reinforcer depends on the relative probabilities of the responses it occasions and the responses to be ...
number
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Brief expression for the number of responses already emitted in executing a ratio, especially as these function as stimuli. (E.g., "number as reinforcer" means that the accumulation of a number of ...
negative automaintenance
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Birds are autoshaped to peck a key, but in negative automaintenance food is not presented if the bird pecks the key. This is also called omission training because food reinforcement is omitted if key ...
needs
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Behaviors which a person lacks which are necessary in order to function effectively and independently both in the present and in the future.
within-subject experimental designs
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Behavioral research designs based on repeated measurement of a behavior under the same and under different conditions of the independent variable (phases). During each phase, sufficient data are ...
vocal behavior
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Behavior that produces sound. Vocal behavior is not necessarily verbal.
rehearsal
Psychology; Behavior analysis
Behavior that occurs between storage and retrieval. In most usages, rehearsal includes encoding; occasionally it refers only to behavior that follows encoding. Some usages also distinguish among ...
